The Standard Bearer, Turned to Left (1587): Art, History and Details

The Standard Bearer, Turned to Left (1587) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Hendrick Goltzius (Dutch, 1558–1617).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Around 1587 Goltzius drew designs for 12 prints depicting officers and soldiers in landscape settings, which were engraved by his pupil Jacques de Gheyn II. Goltzius himself engraved a related pair of prints, The Captain of Infantry and The Great Standard Bearer. A central figure in the army and civic guard, the standard bearer marked the position of the captain. At this time, the Netherlands were trying to oust their Spanish rulers and these prints were conceived as flamboyant expressions of military pride.

Object facts

• Title: The Standard Bearer, Turned to Left
• Date: 1587
• Creator attribution: Hendrick Goltzius (Dutch, 1558–1617)
• Culture: Netherlands, 16th century
• Type: Print
• Technique: engraving
• Dimensions: Sheet: 27.9 x 18.9 cm (11 x 7 7/16 in.); Image: 26.8 x 18.7 cm (10 9/16 x 7 3/8 in.)
• Collection: PR - Engraving
• Department: Prints
• Accession number: 1996.364

Collection credit

Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland

Further reading listed by the museum

• Watkins, Catherine Bailey. Rembrandt's 1654 Life of Christ Prints: Experimentation, Tradition, and the Question of Series. 2011.

View the collection record

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